River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-14
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Ships thirty threshlng ma
chimes day.
Kacine's license fee for circuses Is the
highest IN the United States.
VIM Grossly. of Calumet county has
has passed his Tooth birthday.
GAINESVILLE has complied with all
the requirements for being made free
delivery city.
Seventy-seven names We're enrolled
at the Mansion meeting of the pioneers
OF Juneau county.
A Kaukauna girl had a Young man
arrested for kissing her. and the
offender was fined IS.
There are 500 water-tahers in Osh-
kOsh. and the water-works furnish l.
100000 gallons daily, leaving 1000
gallons to each person.
The locomotive that hauled a fire
engine from Stevens Point TO Marsh
field made the run in 43 minutes. The
distance is thirty-two miles.
An old man named Kingle wandered
INTO the woods al Stephensville and is
suppose to have perishe,i from expos
ure. He was about 30 year of age
The First National bank of Beloit is
closing up its affairs and will surrender
~ charter. 1t will be succeeded by ne
gsivate bank of l.. c. Hyde 6 Orittan.
A tramp that came before J idge Pat
ten at GAINESVILLE, explained his arrest
as a ''disagreeable little circumstance
caused by temporary fin;-seial embar-
rassment "
Mrs. William Neumann, ~esidinq in
Fond du Lac, gave birth to fourteen
pound boy Wednesday evening. be.
seventeenth, without twins or triplets.
Mrs. Neumann is A years old
/ Black diptheria is raging in Freedom,
and though not as an epidemic, the
terrible disease has heen fatal in almost
every attack. Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Carney have lost three children.
Warner Hubbard drowned at Weeds
mill, about three miles east of Besse-
rler, while endeavoring to raise a gate
at dam The platform gave way and
threw him into the current below.
A delegation of boys waited ON the
mayor of Plymouth and asked per
mission to chariyari 4 newly married
couple. The mayor advised some
more quiet way of working them.
A Stock company is forming in Rock
Elm to put in sluices to Plum ere, k
and make extensive arrangements for
extracting the gold, which. it has been
demonstrated, exists in paying quantities.
). c. Gale, of Minneapolis, president
of the York Iron company, of Black
River Falls, is considering plans for
a high school and library building
which he intends TO build and present
% the city of Black River Falls.
Jon Laggergreen of Marinette.
drove a horse into railway cattle
..ustd, He returned to the city for as
sistapcr 81 .,vtricate the animal. and
in his abset.ees a train passed killing the
horse and destToy'aA the buggy.
The Wisconsin Cent. as great ore
dock at Ashland is cofnvieic, at a cost
of $4,000 The work require. forty
miles of piIing, 100000 feet ri D.. m
Der and 100000 pounds Of IRON anu
steel it has a storage capacity of ,250,--
900 tons.
A man was found lying by the side of
the railroad track with his head close to-
the rail and the body stretched length
wise of the rail, a mile south of Fifield.
His forehead was crushed rs from a blow
with a heavy club. The matter will be
Investigated, As foul play is suspected.
At the home of his daughter. Mrs. |.
Derusha, in Fond du Lac. Mr. Francis
Rondo, ST,, died at 6 A. NJ on June
%. 1887. aged 100 years, / month and
Is days. The old man was a veteran
of the war of 1912 and had living in all,
454 children, grandchildren aud great
grand children.
As John Gabel was driving his team
in Racine, the wheels of the wagon
caught in the street railway track and
capsized. MIR. Gabel was thrown out
and the wagon passed over him. His
right arm was broken i'm two places
his legs injured. and he received slight
internal injuries. The inquired man
will recover.
At MenSaha. some time ago, the
Central railroad built shed in one of
the streets in an uninhabited part of the
city. Recently that city has become
populated and the city ordered the rail
WY company to move the shed IL
pa d no attention TO the order. and IL
was torn down Monday by the marshal
and assistants.
The Catholic sistcrhood. known as
the landmarks of Christ, is preparing
to build hospital at Hurley. The
main building is to be 100Xj0 feet.
three stories high. and n large annex.
containing kitchen, laundry, etc. The
wards will be arranged so rs to be
cool and neat, and the halls are To Toe
wide and airy. The hospital will cost
$780,
The Sheboygan St. Peters church
fight has assumed new phase By the
serving of an injunction restraining
Henry Landwehr. Carl Shuster. WIN.
Shuster. Andrew Herder, Gottfried
Pehlke, Christian Kehding. Aug. Will
sky, Carl Bandit and Chas. Fleisher
from entering the church. The order is
signed by the new trustees, and is
served on the old board
~ ifpniAA HAS -ttu tit AOAu OI
Menasha and r. NJ. Scott, to test the
validity of contract entered into be-
tween the town officers and Mr. Scott,
for the transfer of Wisconsin Central
railroad bonds amounting to s., $50 to
Scott. IL Is claimed that the transfer
was illegal, and against the wish of the
taxpayers of the town. The taxpayers
wish 10 restrain the oiiicers from pay
Ing town OrtierstO Scott or these bonds,
and also TO prevent the collection of
taxes for the same purpos'.
The alleged compulsory signing Of
Noes TO the amount of $1,000 by
banker Henry S. Magoon, Of Darling
ton. December. 1885, will be remem-
bered. 1t was stated that Magoon's
brother Richard. at the point of a
revolver. compelled him to sign the
notes Richard claimed that they were
voluntarily signed. A Law suit over
the matter has just been decided against
Henry s., the court holding the nots ; to
have been voluntarily signed. 1t seems
the trouble was about the estate OF the
father of the two Magoons, Henry re-
fusing to give Richard his share Of the
estate.
A dispatch from Oshkosh announces
the rumor that DIR. Kempster' appoint
ment as superintendent of the Northern